Some stories wrapped up today: In Atlanta the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said that the district court had no jurisdiction to block the U.S. government from using the records it seized in the criminal investigation of former president Trump. That is, when U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon allowed Trump’s request for a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI in its search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, she assumed power the district court did not have. Special Master Raymond Dearie will be dismissed, and the criminal investigation of the former president will go forward.
Below is my comment to The NY Times story on the appeals court special master ruling. The quotation is taken from the reported text of the ruling .
"...there was no justification for treating Mr. Trump differently than any other target of a search warrant." TFG should have been cuffed and perp-walked that day. Any other citzen would have been, and rightly so.
Merrick Garland, your path is cleared and clear. The evidence is abundant. Indictments before Christmas.
I wrote a letter to the NYTimes today hoping that 10 or more sane Republicans in the House would join all the Democrats and elect Liz Cheney as Speaker before reading today's missive from Heather. I truly hope that is what Rep. Norman is suggesting.
While I may disagree on manymany policy issues with Cheney she has acted with integrity in her honor of Democracy above self interest. I am sure she will rein in the MAGA crazies and prevent the fiscal brinksmanship that McCarthy is promising if he is elected. Speaker.
It also would be the perfect pin in TFG's balloon to end his chances in 2024 because I am sure the investigations will continue.
I would love to see it be Nancy Pelosi's gift to America to wrangle the the Democrat's into agreement with Jefferies by her side. What a way to transfer Democratic leadership.
Born in France, of a father serving in the USAF, my subsequent visits proved fertile and deep love for the country and the people. We are, indeed, partners in the world stage. I'm not certain of the meaning of this relationship at this point.
The current, unsustainable, and heinous war waged by Putin threatens the stability of the world over. Beyond the titillation of TFGs court skirmishes, there are potential and real famines and hardships in multiple countries due to this proxy war.
What are we to do? Who are we to say? Above us all remains the crises in climate change that will exact its own. At naturebatslast.org, renowned scholar and professor emeritus, Guy McPherson argues that we are at risk of extinction. We, as in humans. He is an advocate of planetary hospice and living with love.
As we enter this post-truth, post-equilibrium world, who do we become? What can we dream of?
Your discussions offer hope and options and I am ever grateful to and for HCR for this forum.
Macron responded: “And when your soldiers came during the First and the Second World War in our country, they had exactly the same feeling. And we will never forget that a lot of your families lost children on the soils they never knew before just because they were fighting for liberty and for universal values.”
Nice to hear civility exchanged after years of sociopathic rants about "shithole countries". And yes, our soldiers fought for more that US interests. Life worth living was at stake throughout the world. Is always is to one degree or another.
"And we will never forget that a lot of your families lost children on the soils they never knew before just because they were fighting for liberty and for universal values.” (Macron)
I am growing so tired of the theatrics of the GOP. Their cliffhanger of who they have in mind for the next Speaker of the House is nothing more than a dog whistle to their base . I expect it will be an unqualified circus dog. The likes of Marjorie Traitor Green or Donald Trump come to mind.
I was talking to a woman from Australia last evening at an event for the Historical Museum I'm director for. She said I must be so torn with this Country. So much to be proud of, yet so much to be disgusted with.
I told her I am more disappointed than disgusted. I just don't know how we got to this point so quickly. She shrugged her shoulders and simply said, "Donald Trump".
Thank you "U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said that the district court had no jurisdiction to block the U.S. government from using the records it seized in the criminal investigation of former president Trump."!
Who might Republican right-wingers nominate to be Speaker? The obvious answer is Trump, but there are others who would be equally ridiculous. Tucker Carlson? Kyle Rittenhouse? Kari Lake? Sarah Palin? Steve Bannon? Mike Lindell? Pepe the Frog? My point is not to actually guess the correct nominee. It’s to point out how ludicrous the Republicans have become, what a mockery they make of “governing”, how they are dedicated to nothing more than belligerent ignorance. The ignorance isn’t an accident, it’s the point.
Joseph MCCarthy in the 1950s was a lying alcoholic supported by Republicans in his false anti-communist crusade. His balloon exploded.He was censured by the Senate shortly before dying of alcoholism.
Kevin McCarthy, as prospective Speaker of a slim-Republican-majority House, will never acquire his name-sakes’ popularity, while he endeavors to herd such venomous cats as Majorie Tayler Greene and Boebert.
He will probably support Benghazi-type hearings while endeavoring to balance political mischief with an occasional effort not to do something truly detrimental to our country.
I lived through one Republican McCarthy. That was more than enough.
One of the great joys of the 2020 election is when Pennsylvania was called for Biden Harris and I remember everyone in the streets here in Evanston were out screaming in joy and later I learned that at that moment all the church bells were ringing in Paris. Viva La France, Viva Le 11th Circuit Court….
Seems defending liberty and universal values is as urgent a domestic goal as it is a foreign policy. The Republican agenda to launch numerous baseless investigations will waste energy, time, and resources that could better serve the common good. The extremist understanding of individualism the GQP now holds subverts the common good in favor of rapacious moneyed interests.
So much in this letter triggered personal historical remembrances for me. First was the court comment that you cannot “carve out an unprecedented exception in our law for former presidents.” I remember some grade or middle school teacher saying in the 1950s that our government was dissimilar to monarchies because all citizens were equal (This was integrated St. Louis, not my family home in MS) and even the president was subject to the law. Of course when the only non-elected president pardoned Nixon of his crimes a couple decades later it blew that rose-colored fallacy to bits. But glad to see judges of the same party reiterate it for the most recent crooked president.
Also, I remembered my most exotic aunt, Jeanine Boyte, brot to our family from France in 1945 by Uncle Lany Boyte who fought there. As a child I remember her B&W foto in my grandmothers collection looking like a movie star in a pose holding a cigarette with smoke wafting up - so cosmopolitan. As a young man living in New Orleans in the 1960s, I visited them in Baton Rouge Louisiana, when there was still Cajun French spoken and there were French language newspapers.
All that Franco-American history in New Orleans had faded except in the 1970s when Vietnamese refugees were staying at the Catholic home for boys where I worked, and once again with Vietnamese waiters, French was again spoken at Cafe du Monde.
Ironically, in the next generation of occupation soldiers, I had a first cousin bring a German wife, Ingre Boyte to the family (she learned English in MS and spoke with a southern accent). Another first cousin on my mom's side brot a Japanese wife to the family.
This summary of Macron’s visit was so much more hopeful than the CBS Evening News. The CBS version made me think Macron did nothing but criticize Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and disagree on his approach to the war on Ukraine. Why does main stream media emphasize only the negative? But I am sick so maybe I missed some of the broadcast.
Ye has completely lost his mind.
Can one of you scholars tell me about the Speaker of the House role? Namely, this curious idea that someone other than a Representative can be elected to fill it? My immediate assumption was that they want Trump or the My Pillow guy, an embarrassment to the state of Minnesota. Where is McConnell in all this? The Republicans will erode their base further with investigations. They need a knight now, someone to come in and remind them of their former platform, bring them together with a message of peace, progress and honest hard work. I guess I’m describing Biden and the Democratic platform. Still. They have to be tired of all the divisiveness and lies.
More natural disasters will change the narrative for sure.
Below is my comment to The NY Times story on the appeals court special master ruling. The quotation is taken from the reported text of the ruling .
"...there was no justification for treating Mr. Trump differently than any other target of a search warrant." TFG should have been cuffed and perp-walked that day. Any other citzen would have been, and rightly so.
Merrick Garland, your path is cleared and clear. The evidence is abundant. Indictments before Christmas.
I wrote a letter to the NYTimes today hoping that 10 or more sane Republicans in the House would join all the Democrats and elect Liz Cheney as Speaker before reading today's missive from Heather. I truly hope that is what Rep. Norman is suggesting.
While I may disagree on manymany policy issues with Cheney she has acted with integrity in her honor of Democracy above self interest. I am sure she will rein in the MAGA crazies and prevent the fiscal brinksmanship that McCarthy is promising if he is elected. Speaker.
It also would be the perfect pin in TFG's balloon to end his chances in 2024 because I am sure the investigations will continue.
I would love to see it be Nancy Pelosi's gift to America to wrangle the the Democrat's into agreement with Jefferies by her side. What a way to transfer Democratic leadership.
Born in France, of a father serving in the USAF, my subsequent visits proved fertile and deep love for the country and the people. We are, indeed, partners in the world stage. I'm not certain of the meaning of this relationship at this point.
The current, unsustainable, and heinous war waged by Putin threatens the stability of the world over. Beyond the titillation of TFGs court skirmishes, there are potential and real famines and hardships in multiple countries due to this proxy war.
What are we to do? Who are we to say? Above us all remains the crises in climate change that will exact its own. At naturebatslast.org, renowned scholar and professor emeritus, Guy McPherson argues that we are at risk of extinction. We, as in humans. He is an advocate of planetary hospice and living with love.
As we enter this post-truth, post-equilibrium world, who do we become? What can we dream of?
Your discussions offer hope and options and I am ever grateful to and for HCR for this forum.
Blessings upon us all.
Macron responded: “And when your soldiers came during the First and the Second World War in our country, they had exactly the same feeling. And we will never forget that a lot of your families lost children on the soils they never knew before just because they were fighting for liberty and for universal values.”
Nice to hear civility exchanged after years of sociopathic rants about "shithole countries". And yes, our soldiers fought for more that US interests. Life worth living was at stake throughout the world. Is always is to one degree or another.
"And we will never forget that a lot of your families lost children on the soils they never knew before just because they were fighting for liberty and for universal values.” (Macron)
I guess we should all never forget.
Thank you Heather.
I am growing so tired of the theatrics of the GOP. Their cliffhanger of who they have in mind for the next Speaker of the House is nothing more than a dog whistle to their base . I expect it will be an unqualified circus dog. The likes of Marjorie Traitor Green or Donald Trump come to mind.
I was talking to a woman from Australia last evening at an event for the Historical Museum I'm director for. She said I must be so torn with this Country. So much to be proud of, yet so much to be disgusted with.
I told her I am more disappointed than disgusted. I just don't know how we got to this point so quickly. She shrugged her shoulders and simply said, "Donald Trump".
She's right.
Be safe. Be well.
Thank you "U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said that the district court had no jurisdiction to block the U.S. government from using the records it seized in the criminal investigation of former president Trump."!
For an excellent in-depth explication of the 11th Circuit's ruling, including indicators of the judges' scorn for both the former guy's case and Judge Cannon's earlier rulings, see Joyce Vance's post: https://joycevance.substack.com/p/11th-circuit-to-trump-youre-not-above?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Who might Republican right-wingers nominate to be Speaker? The obvious answer is Trump, but there are others who would be equally ridiculous. Tucker Carlson? Kyle Rittenhouse? Kari Lake? Sarah Palin? Steve Bannon? Mike Lindell? Pepe the Frog? My point is not to actually guess the correct nominee. It’s to point out how ludicrous the Republicans have become, what a mockery they make of “governing”, how they are dedicated to nothing more than belligerent ignorance. The ignorance isn’t an accident, it’s the point.
So, what's the over/under that the Krazy Kooky Klunks think they can nominate El Jefe Del Merde A Loco as Speaker?
Joseph MCCarthy in the 1950s was a lying alcoholic supported by Republicans in his false anti-communist crusade. His balloon exploded.He was censured by the Senate shortly before dying of alcoholism.
Kevin McCarthy, as prospective Speaker of a slim-Republican-majority House, will never acquire his name-sakes’ popularity, while he endeavors to herd such venomous cats as Majorie Tayler Greene and Boebert.
He will probably support Benghazi-type hearings while endeavoring to balance political mischief with an occasional effort not to do something truly detrimental to our country.
I lived through one Republican McCarthy. That was more than enough.
I believe the Kingdom of Morocco, an Arab, African and Muslim Kingdom was the first to recognize the US as a sovereign state, not France.
One of the great joys of the 2020 election is when Pennsylvania was called for Biden Harris and I remember everyone in the streets here in Evanston were out screaming in joy and later I learned that at that moment all the church bells were ringing in Paris. Viva La France, Viva Le 11th Circuit Court….
Seems defending liberty and universal values is as urgent a domestic goal as it is a foreign policy. The Republican agenda to launch numerous baseless investigations will waste energy, time, and resources that could better serve the common good. The extremist understanding of individualism the GQP now holds subverts the common good in favor of rapacious moneyed interests.
So much in this letter triggered personal historical remembrances for me. First was the court comment that you cannot “carve out an unprecedented exception in our law for former presidents.” I remember some grade or middle school teacher saying in the 1950s that our government was dissimilar to monarchies because all citizens were equal (This was integrated St. Louis, not my family home in MS) and even the president was subject to the law. Of course when the only non-elected president pardoned Nixon of his crimes a couple decades later it blew that rose-colored fallacy to bits. But glad to see judges of the same party reiterate it for the most recent crooked president.
Also, I remembered my most exotic aunt, Jeanine Boyte, brot to our family from France in 1945 by Uncle Lany Boyte who fought there. As a child I remember her B&W foto in my grandmothers collection looking like a movie star in a pose holding a cigarette with smoke wafting up - so cosmopolitan. As a young man living in New Orleans in the 1960s, I visited them in Baton Rouge Louisiana, when there was still Cajun French spoken and there were French language newspapers.
All that Franco-American history in New Orleans had faded except in the 1970s when Vietnamese refugees were staying at the Catholic home for boys where I worked, and once again with Vietnamese waiters, French was again spoken at Cafe du Monde.
Ironically, in the next generation of occupation soldiers, I had a first cousin bring a German wife, Ingre Boyte to the family (she learned English in MS and spoke with a southern accent). Another first cousin on my mom's side brot a Japanese wife to the family.
This summary of Macron’s visit was so much more hopeful than the CBS Evening News. The CBS version made me think Macron did nothing but criticize Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and disagree on his approach to the war on Ukraine. Why does main stream media emphasize only the negative? But I am sick so maybe I missed some of the broadcast.
Ye has completely lost his mind.
Can one of you scholars tell me about the Speaker of the House role? Namely, this curious idea that someone other than a Representative can be elected to fill it? My immediate assumption was that they want Trump or the My Pillow guy, an embarrassment to the state of Minnesota. Where is McConnell in all this? The Republicans will erode their base further with investigations. They need a knight now, someone to come in and remind them of their former platform, bring them together with a message of peace, progress and honest hard work. I guess I’m describing Biden and the Democratic platform. Still. They have to be tired of all the divisiveness and lies.
More natural disasters will change the narrative for sure.